The Nothing that Is
Subtitle: A Natural History of Zero
Contributors: Ellen Kaplan (Illustrator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 27, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195142372
First sentence: Zero began its career as two wedges pressed into a wet lump of clay, in the days when a superb piece of mental engineering gave us the art of counting.